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19th & 20 centuries
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American Civil War
Apr 12 1861 - Apr 9 1895. A four year long war fought by the Confederate (The 11 Southern states that allowed slavery) and the Union (The Northern states that didn't allow slavery). After President Lincoln won the election witout carrying a Southern state, the white people in the South thought that disunion was their only option. So they started to promote slavery.Then later caused the Civil War. -
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by President Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation lets the 3-4 million slaves in the union to join the U.S. army for a salary (But only if you are free). -
The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fiftheenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizend the right to vote based on that citizrn's race, color, or percious codition od servitude. This Amendment was passed due to all the steps before in voting and colored people can't vote. This Amendment was the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act were also refered to "Enforcemeent Act" ot the "Force Act". it was a U.S. federal law passed in the Reconstruction Era. this Act guaranteed African Americans the equal treatment as white men in public, trasportations, etc. but was concidered "unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. -
Ida B. Wells sues the Chesapeake, Ohio & South Western Railroad Company
On May 4, 1884, a train conductor ordered Ida b. Wells out of her seat and go to the black car. Ida refused and when the conductor grabed her arm, she bit down hard. It yook 2 men to get her out of the white car and to the black. -
Supreme Corut Case Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark U.S. Court decision unholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segration in public under the qoutes "separate but equal". -
NAACP's founding date.
The fist planned meeting of a group that wil later become the National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP). The (NAACP) is an interacial group of people that are decoted to civil rights. -
Houston Riot
The Houston Riot of 1917 also called Camp Logan Riot was a revolt group of people made up of 156 Aferican American soldiers od the Third Battalion of the all-black Twenty-fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment. This riot happen one night due to an unexplained arrest of a women and assaulted her and in result, four soldiers and sixteen civilians lost their life. A total of 19 soliders would be exeecuted and 41 were given life senances. -
Rosewood massacre
All of this trouble began when whites from nearby town lynched a black Rosewood resident because of unsupported accusations that a white women has been beaten. A racially motivated attack on African Americans and their neighborhoood committed by at a white mob in Florida during January 1 – 7. At least six blacks and 2 whites were killed in the uprising violence. -
The League of Struggle for Negro Rights
The league was active in organizing support for the "scottsboro boys", nine black men sentances to death in 1931 accused of something they nevered did. -
Chambers v. Florida
An importand U.S. Supreme Court case that dealt with the extent that police presure reulsting in a criminal defendant's confussion violates the Due Pracess clause. -
Rosa Parks
An African-American civil rights activist who the U.S. Congress calls " the first lady of civil rights"and " the mother of the freedom movement". On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey the bus driver's orders to relinquish her seat in he black section when the white section was full. And of course, ahe reused. -
Loving v. Virginia
An African-American women and Richard Perry Loving (a white men). In June 1958, the couple traveled to Washinton D.C. to marry. Then went back to a small town named Central Point, Virgina. Local police raided their house at night and arrested them. And that leads to the Spreme Court case. But he Lovings weren't trying to make an impact on siociety, thay just want to live in pease in Virgina close to both thier families. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Soon after Martin Luther King Jr. was assinated, the campain for a ferderal holiday to honor what Martin Luther King Jr did for freedom. At first some states restricted having holidaies that MLK Jr Day. Then it was finally appreciated in all 50 states in 2000.
